Billy, please post for me that peeek-chure of Chick-on sitting in the tree on Watkins looking at Half Dome -- consider that my contribution choice for the Dome views (it is one of my favorites; it is up on my wall)

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Billy, please post for me that peeek-chure of Chick-on sitting in the tree on Watkins looking at Half Dome -- consider that my contribution choice for the Dome views (it is one of my favorites; it is up on my wall)

Not me. I was too busy flying the plane to take pictures when I flew over Half Dome.

I flew by Shasta for my Solo, and I even managed to snap a few pics, but they are long gone lost (I don't have much use for archiving, so I will probably forget that I did anything interesting in old age)

Interesting -- the Dome looks really far away from El Cap in this pic, while in other pics, they practically look stacked on each other (like in my winter shot & YPW's shot taken close to El Cap) It must have everything to do with the fact that I used full telephoto (compresses the pic) and this one must have some wide angle, maybe?

Here's a photo of Half Dome from a location that's just an easy five minute cross-country hike from a pullout off Tioga Road southeast of Coyote Rocks. (The pullout is where Old Tioga Road joins Tioga Road roughly a mile west of the May Lake junction.)

I was thinking this could be a nice place for your friend to pop the question to his girlfriend. They would definitely have the place all to themselves.

Here's a link to Google Maps showing the exact location of the photo (where the green arrow is on the map): http://goo.gl/4GO90

Yesterday (Wednesday, June 26, 2013), as summer days go, the air quality was pretty darn good in the Central Valley and sure enough, Eighty-Percent Dome was visible (through the haze) from Patterson. A very nice sight to see: